Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - "Meditations", book 9.
A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - "Meditations", book 9.
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - "Meditations", book 6.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - "Meditations", book 2.
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - "Meditations", book 5.
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - "Meditations", book 6.
To stand up -- or be setup?

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations, 200 A.D.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Meditations
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus